Propensities

Examples

• Hortense and she possessed an exhaustless mutual theme of conversation in the corrupt propensities of servants. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They are natives of the southeast of Asia and are remarkable for their pugnacious propensities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He can influence the blood-thirsty war-dogs, while I resist their propensities vainly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• What a pigmy intellect she had, and what giant propensities! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But of his minuter propensities, as you call them you have from peculiar circumstances been kept more ignorant than myself. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• And Herbert had seen him as a predatory Tartar of comic propensities, with a face like a red brick, and an outrageous hat all over bells. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• How fearful were the curses those propensities entailed on me! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The merit and demerit of actions frequently contradict, and sometimes controul our natural propensities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Here then the contradiction betwixt the propensities of the imagination and passion displays itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• We build now on his intellectual faculties, we establish our hopes on his moral propensities. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Well, propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Science represents the safeguard of the race against these natural propensities and the evils which flow from them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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